Senior Applied Scientist , Research and Applied Science Team, PXT Senior Talent and Transformation
Core
Translating validated scientific methodologies in behavioral science and psychometrics into reliable, scalable production systems for Amazon's senior leader development and talent programs.
Role type
Senior Applied Scientist (Research & Applied Science)
Builds
Production pipelines for LLM-powered assessment scoring, causal inference tools, and self-serve evaluation frameworks for HR teams.
Domain
People Analytics / Organizational Behavior / Applied AI
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Python software engineering, psychometric measurement and validation, causal inference, LLM system implementation (prompt orchestration, evaluation harnesses), system architecture design, reproducibility engineering
Preferred skills
End-to-end ownership of scientific systems without dedicated SDE support, building RAG pipelines, designing simulation-based assessment instruments
Technologies
Python, LLMs, Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Responsibilities
Own production implementation of scientific systems from end to end; define architectural decisions for encoding scientific methods into software; build LLM-powered pipelines for people science; extend scientific techniques for novel AI features; partner with researchers on methodology design; build reusable scientific components; contribute to quasi-experimental evaluations; mentor scientists on software engineering practices.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC